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Monday, January 7, 2013

Benefits sniffing roses

Benefits sniffing roses
German researchers found that they could use odors to re-activate new memories in the brain during sleep,The volunteers remember things better after that ...

The researchers wrote in the journal Science scientific ... The study showed that memories are indeed consolidated during sleep,And smells and perhaps other stimuli can reinforce learning pathways in the brain ...

The 74 volunteers learn to study researcher Jan Born and colleagues at the University of Luebeck in Germany,Play games similar to the game (focus) in which they must find matched pairs of objects or cards ...

While they were doing this task, some of the volunteers inhaled the scent of roses ...After volunteers then agreed to sleep inside a special tube which can monitor brain MRI during sleep,At various stages during sleep, Born's team wafted same scent of roses ....

The volunteers were tested again the next day on Matzkrōh researchers wrote:(After the odor night, participants remembered 97.2% of the playing cards they had learned before sleep) ...

This while shrunk ratio Matzkrōh to 86% only if they did not get roses during sleep ..The researchers said the discovery will add to the debate over whether people learn while they slept in the same way that demonstrated some of the animals ..

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